frozentundraguy

Your Thorens TD240 turntable is superb. (thumbs u I do recall researching the phono-line stage to boost the sound from the records a few years back. I decided that I was not going to sock a lot into my replacement system, as I typically listen to songs from radio. I do have a 5 disc CD player and my old 1 disc CD player, so I have a lot of options as to listen to music. I find that I use the CD player in my car more than my audio system these days, however.

The Pioneer SX-727 stereo reciever

No, the original "Street Survivors" is among the many LPs don't have.

 

 

Are you a vinyl junkie yourself though? Do you have a good turntable?

 

I still have my album's, but don't listen to them very often these days. At one time I had an excellent Pioneer setup, with the SX-727 receiver at the core of the system. My orignal turntable died, and I replaced it with a Kenwood model about 10 years ago. The new turntable is still working fine. My SX-727 finally died about 6 years ago, and I replaced it with a somewhat newer Pioneer model about 3 years ago, that I found on E-Bay. A trip to the places like Best Buy proved a waste of time, as component audio systems have now morphed into home theater systems. The new systems do not have a plug in jack for turntables The replacement receiver does not have quite the power the old one had, but I find a lower volume setting is fine these days.

I picked up LR #19 as part of a deal, where I bought 45 books for 50 dollars a few years ago.

Of the 45 there were a few that were coverless, or had partial covers. This is one of the unlucky ones.

Thanks:)

 

I started actively pursuing WW books in 2000, took me almost 10 years to complete the set and I was not very fussy about grades in the beginning, I just wanted A copy.

Congratulations, and thanks for the detailed response. I only have a few Wonder Women. Of the books I own this is my favorite.

Very nice. (thumbs u I wonder why the Wonder Women comics from roughly 1955 to 1961 are so tough to locate. Anyone have any theories?

 

 

 

Television was just getting popular, Superman was on TV, girls were focused on dolls, Barbies, and they were pushed towards Archie stuff if any comics at all. Seduction of the Innocent was fresh in the mind of the parents of Baby Boomers, so lots of parents were tossing comics, and she didn't really have the same kind of powers as Superman or Superboy...and then DC published a competing character, Supergirl, ,she could fly, had a flying horse and she had all of Superman's powers!.

 

Wonder Woman comics were not found as often on newstands, they didn't sell as well. Girls were watching Donna Reed and Gale Storm/Susie and wanting to grow up like them. This was way before the women's movement. Veronica, Betty and Katy Keene were more the type that the girls of that era looked up to.

 

I'm glad it changed;)

Thanks,

I remember I had only been collecting for a year back in 1999, and had already noticed how hard it was to find 50's WW.

I like the #104. I like the #102 even more though:

 

 

Very nice. (thumbs u I wonder why the Wonder Women comics from roughly 1955 to 1961 are so tough to locate. Anyone have any theories?

Heres a book I used to own. Sold it in a weak moment.

I believe this was the first Strange Adventure I picked up, when I resumed collecting.

Couple I picked up in San Francisco. Nothin to spectacular but they fit in the collection nicely til I get better copies.

 

 

 

And... sorry to see you go hawkman. Hopefully you decide to stick around here for awhile longer. There's great stuff here, despite some of the d-baggery that goes on around here.

excelsior1986,

Those are decent filler copies. I would also like to see "The Return of the Hawkman". Overall my experience here has been highly positive. I hope he wont let one bad experience end his involvement on these boards.

Hepcat,

Excellent collection of sportscards. I had quite a few of the 61-63 Post Cereal baseball cards, but sold them on E-bay 2 or 3 years ago.

Did you get a copy of Street Survivors album before they pulled the original cover?

I'm a Rolling Stones fan also. (thumbs u

Twas a very sad day when the Lynrd Skynard plane crashed.

I concur. Those rocky covers are just amazing. Thanks for posting them hepcat.

 

If you have time, check out some of the threads in the Silver Age. Hepcat has an abundance of high quality books.

I believe it's time to fire up this thread.

One of the "cooler" panels in the story.

Finally arrived from the great white north...

 

 

There was no back cover scan when I bought this, so this was a nice surprise on the back:

 

Very cool book and in great condition.

Here's a scan of a good Xmas cover:

 

 

Very nice. (thumbs u I have another Frosty FC book. A snowman of many sports.

It's too quiet around here. A couple of Sgt Fury annuals could shake things up.

Posted in another thread not too long ago, but I'm partial to this cover.

I'm not really heavy into crime books. Found this one at the LCS maybe a couple of years back. My lone issue of this title.

# 7 April 49

Here are scans of some Harvey western comics:

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Those are NICE.

My last Lone Ranger, for the time being.

#58

Back cover scan, no extra charge.

Having just read through a couple of other threads around here, I think I'd rather hang out in a place where someone (correctly) thinks that a Lassie #20 is a great find.

 

And I know there's (now) a SF thread, but these are just the epitome of Atom Age, so I'll post it in its spiritual home.

 

 

I'm no exobiologist, but I really have to wonder how useful flippers are in that enviroment...

AJD,

The flippers must double as fans to keep cool.

Neat book by the way, thus far I have only a few of the early 90's reprints for Weird Science.

Thanks for the Hartman info Scrooge. I like the Lassie also. I'll have to get some of those.

Here are a couple of my Hartman's I recently cracked out of holders but haven't read yet.

 

 

 

Good stuff! I like to hear stories of collectors who MANUP and crack 'em open so that they can actually flip through their treasures.

 

Great comics too!

 

(thumbs u

 

Excellent copies of those two Lone Ranger's damonwad.

Not too mention the information provided on Harman by Scrooge. It's always interesting to get more in depth information on the creative talent behind the comics. (thumbs u

I have a story to relate on Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger in the 50's TV Show. I did not know it at the time, but he lived in Golden Valley MN from 1965 to the early 70's if I recall correctly. See the link below on how Clayton assisted after a robbery occurred at the Golden Valley shopping center. I lived in G.V. from 1959 to 1971, but never did get to meet Clayton Moore.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/010600/opi_0106000025.shtml

Another link to Clayton Moore, who also appeared in movie serials featuring The The Perils of Nyokia, "Richard" or "D" Tracy Returns, and Zorro before starring in the Lone Ranger TV show.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/29/news/mn-48531

Scrooge,

Sweet copy. (thumbs u I took a quick spin through the GCD site and found the artist is either Gollub or "?" through the first 20 issues. Do you have a preference?

Congrats on being just one issue from completion!

damonwad,

Thanks.

I also have #52, even though it's marked #57.

I like the back cover of this issue also.

Hi Andy,

 

I was just re-reading the War report in the 2010 OPG, and noticed you were given a nice mention (pg. 141) on the annual poll for the best War comic cover. (thumbs u I had a thought for something slightly different next year. How about a poll for the best single page out of a DC war book. Just a thought.

 

D.W.

 

Sorry I didn't see this earlier.

 

Yeah, it sure was cool to be mentioned in the OSPG. It was a true honour.

 

I love doing the polls/contests, but they're time consuming, and lately I haven't had a lot of extra time.

 

There are a few things that I'm thinking of doing, one of which would be a "best non-greytone DC war" contest. This one makes sense, as it does always turn into the greytones taking over the contest, hands down. It'd be cool to see what prevails without them.

 

Perhaps I'll gear that one up for a February launch.

 

The interior page contest would be neat. I wouldn't consider it to be rude if you wanted to run that one. (thumbs u

 

Happy New Year!

 

Andy

Thanks Andy,

I will see if I can pull off the interior page contest before winter is over.

Nice LR Scrooge, (thumbs u

That reminds me I have this LR ready to post.

#60

I love Mad. Interest in them does seem to be declining though. That's OK. More Mad for me!

I agree. I have not pursued Mad on E-bay very often recently, but when I have the prices for books from the early 60's seem very reasonable, compared to what I remember from about 10 years back.

Back cover of issue # 208

Kubert & Maurer at their best.

 

 

It's another fabulous Kubert cover, that's for sure!

 

(thumbs u

 

Greate cover, plus it's a preview of Kuberts later work on Tarzan in the early 70's.

I love Tor! Seeing yours above reminded of this one, that I got Kubert to sign a little while ago. He was really psyched to see it.

 

Congratulations on owing a signed copy from Kubert. Did you get to meet him in person?